Building material.



No. 884,959. PATENTED APR. 14, 1908.

J. STANLEY.

BUILDING MATERIAL. APPLICATION FILED DEG.19, 190s. RENEWED MAR.18, 190s.

A TTORNEYS JAMES STANLEY, OF NEW .YORK, N. Y.

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Specification oi Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Application filed December 19,1906, Serial No. 8%,525. Renewed March 18, 1908. Serial No. 421,764.

To all whom itmay concern.-

Be it known that l, JAMES STANLEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, ha ve invented a new and Improved Building Material, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The invention. relates to masonry and its object is to provide a new and improved buildin material for use as a bui ding or partition b lock, slab, ceiling late, 1 th and the like, and arranged to com ine stren th'with lightness and to aid in rendering the walls and ceilings of'buildings in which the material i? used sound proof, Weather proof and fire proo I I The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accom anying drawings forming a part of this spec fication, in which similar charactersof reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of the matrix when used as a lath"; Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the same on the line 22 of Fig. 1; Fig: 3 is a sectional plan view of the same on the line 3-3 of Fi 1; Fig. 4 is a side elevation of a modified orm of the matrix as used in the manufacture of partition blocks or ceiling plates; Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the Improvement in the form of a buildin or partition block, building slab or ceiling p ate, part being broken out; and

- Fig. 6 is an enlar ed sectional lan view of the same on the inc 66 of ig. 5.

The matrix or core A is formed of two sheets A, A? of paper or like material glued or otherwisefastened together and formed into spaced tubular portions A and intervening. web portions A, as will be readily understood by reference to the drawings. The web portions A are provided with apertures A and the a ertures A of the successive Web portions 4 are staggered, as plainly indicated in Fig. 1-. The matrix thusformed can be used for reinforcing a building block, building slab, ceiling plate or the like made of concrete, plaster of paris or other plastic material capable of hardenin it bemg' understood that in forming suc an article the matrix is embedded in the plastic material B,

as pllainly illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. Now by aving the web portions A provided with apertures A it is evident that the plastic material extends through the said perforations, and hence securely unites the material on both sides of the matrix, at the same time securely locking the matrix in the material. The size of the tubular ortions A and the thickness of the material B is in proportion that is, the tubular portions increase 1n diameter with the thickness of the material.

When it is desired to use the matrix as a lath, the tubular portions A are provided with smaller apertures A", as plainly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2, and in this case the tubular ortions are reinforced by being filled wit concrete, plaster of paris or other lastic material- C (see Fig. 3), so that the atter enters the apertures A thus uniting the aper sheets at the tubular ortions secure y with each other. It is ten simply nailed in position on the studding and the plaster is directly applied to the face of the matrix, and as the web portions A are provided-with the apertures A it is evident that the said a ertures readily receive the plaster and thus orm keys for the same, to securely hold the plaster in osition, insuring a very strong and durable faith.

From the foregoing it will be seen that b theuse of the a or matrix or core, the buil ing block, bu l ing slab or building board having a body of concrete, plaster of paris or other plastic material is immensely reina fire proofand water proof solution previous I to forming the same in the matrix as described.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A paper matrix or core for building urposes com rising sheets of aper fastener toether an forming space tubular portions aving erforated wa ls, and a plastic filling materia in the tubular portions.

2. A paper matrix or core for building purposes, comprising sheets of paper fastene together and forming spaced tubular portions having perforated walls, and intervening web portions havin apertures, and a plastic material in the said tubular portions.

Q seesaw 3. A building block, slab or board com- In testimony whereof I have signed my prising a body of plastic material, a pa er name to this specification in the presence of matrix embedded in the same and forme of two subscribing Witnesses.

sheets of (Faper fastened togethei' and form- JAMES STANLEY. 5 ing space tubular portions, and intervening Witnesses:

Web portions the latter portions being per--| THEO. G. HOSTER,

forated. JNo. M. BITTER. 

